Quick SP2 Fixes Please.....

[WildKat]

I know this has come up before but I only just installed SP2 and am having some issues.

Firstly, the boot-up times have dramatically increased to about double the time.

Secondly, my P2P programs do not connect to all the servers.

Also if there is any other common issues with SP2 that should be sorted out, please let me know.

I installed SP2 over my old SP1 install (will do a clean slipstreamed install once I have the time) and have defragged both drives.

Thanks

[pesko]

Hi wildkat

Sp2 have 2 new features and of cause you can disable them.

The first one are the firewall it normally create a lot of problems because you have to know what ports you software are using, especially if you have installed an other firewall like Symantec internet security. Using more than one firewall can create problems.

The othere one are the memory execution protection this can be disabled if you add /NoExecute=OptIn to your boot.ini file so it looks like this.

[boot loader]

timeout=4

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

In you case I would start with the firewall.

I hope this help you.

Peter